O c t o b e r 2 The Future of Jobs

Current skills in focus of existing reskilling/upskilling
programmes
Share of companies surveyed identifying this skill as being in focus
across their reskilling or upskilling programmes
1.
Creativity, originality and initiative
2.
Complex problem-solving
3.
Analytical thinking and innovation
4.
Management of personnel
5.
Active learning and learning strategies
6.
Emotional intelligence
7.
Leadership and social influence
8.
Critical thinking and analysis
9.
Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility
10.
Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
Responses to shifting skill needs
Share of companies surveyed
Expect existing employees to pick up skills on
the job
Retrain existing employees
Hire new permanent staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Look to automate the work
Outsource some business functions to external
contractors
Hire new temporary staff with skills relevant to
new technologies
Strategic redundancies of staff who lack the skills
to use new technologies
Average reskilling needs
Share of workforce of companies surveyed within this data
Projected use of training providers
Share of companies surveyed
38.6%
Internal learning and development
18.3%
External online training
15.9%
Private training providers
9.9%
Public educational institutions
9.6%
Public training providers
7.8%
Private educational institutions
2 / 2
83%
77%
72%
69%
57%
57%
43%
DURATION OF RESKILLING
Less than 1 month
22.6%
1 to 3 months
21.2%
3 to 6 months
16.1%
6 to 12 months
16.8%
Over 1 year
23.3%
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